There is just one month to go for my local community library’s book bingo initiative which I set up in February.  For last month’s update click here.  To find out what the whole thing is all about click here.

I said last month I was going to have to let the review pile build up as a number of my uncovered squares had to be taken directly from the library shelves.  I’ve been partly successful as I have got three new balloons this month.  That does leave me with a worrying five to still cover.  I know what books I will be reading for these, it is just a matter of getting round to them in time so as I can join the growing number of library users who have completely covered their cards.

So  on to the three I got this month.  Second on the bottom row, covered by the brown balloon was “Lent To You By Someone”.  I need to thank my friend Penny for this.  I was with her in Waterstones when she purchased “The Little Paris Bookshop” and I obviously expressed enough interest in it for her to pass it on to me when she had finished.  I’ve given it back now- so it was definitely a loan, so it gets a balloon.  “The Little Paris Bookshop” is by Nina George and being a recently published paperback translation could have won me a number of my earlier balloons.  My review for this book can be found here.

My other two stickers are for books I have read but the reviews have not yet appeared on here (they will).  On the top row I needed to take out a book from the Young Adult/Teenage section of the library and for a while I’ve been looking at the Darren Shan series of books.  I borrowed and read the first of the series “Cirque Du Freak” and I will let you know what I think of it soon.

I also took out a book from the Crime/Thriller genre section of the library which got me the balloon in the middle of the second row.  I was delighted to find on the shelves the book I wanted to read next in the Peter James DS Grace Series.  This was “Dead Like You” and my review of this will appear in  my next post.

Just under a month to go and five more stickers to complete.  I’ll let you know how close I came to achieving this next month when our Shanklin Library Book Bingo draws to a close with a prize draw for the completed cards (which I can’t win anyway seeing as I set the whole thing up -who wants to hear “fix!” after 6 months of hard reading!)